Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,344, Samuel Gillchrest, Continental Maine Agency And Residence

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Gillchrest, Samuel or Gilchrist
S. 35,344
Maine agency and residence.
CONTENTS

13290 Q
District of Maine
Samuel Gilchrist
of St George in the state of D o Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock of the R Island line, for the term of One year Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of July 1819 and sent to Ebenezer Hatches Thomastown D o Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  87. 18    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep 1819.  48. 00    Mo. 23 4      30 31   $135. 18  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Re-instated by Act of Congress

Notification sent to Ebenezer Thatcher August 18 th Thomaston Maine Died May 4, 1834 Agency book.
Granted by Hon. Dea. Oliver, 25 th March 1821, to pensioner, care Hon. M. L. Hill, Maine Phipsbury
Copy

arrest
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER , Judges of said Court.
ON this eighth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Ebenezer Thatcher a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas 2 o Eastern Circuit
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Samuel Gilchrist aged sixty six years, resident in St George in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Tolbert in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hedgcock in the line of the State of Rhode Island on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the eighth day of June A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 13,290 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Samuel Gilchrist
Sworn to and declared, on the sixth day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

Samuel Gilchrist
FORWARDED BY THE Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
13.290-
Sept. 1819
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Three cows, ten sheep, two young cattle, old horse, waggon, new scythe, farming tools, one hoe, one chain, one shovel. Furniture, six chairs, one pine table. I have nothing due me & am indebted about $ 50.
Samuel Gilchrist
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Samuel Gilchrist who, by occupation am a Farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of infirmity of body having been wounded in York Island on the 16 - day of September 1776, the ball remains in my body
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Hannah 64 was my wife sick & helpless for a number of years past Samuel Gilchrist   Herb. Coffin ele  
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is fifty nine dollars and fifty cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

I Samuel Gillechrest of H Geange in in the County of Lincoln & Commonwealth wealth of Massachusetts do testify and declare, that about the sixth day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy six I enlisted into the American Army in the war of the revolution as a private soldier - under Captain Tolbert in the eleventh Regiment commanded Colonel —
Hedgecock - on the continental - establishment and in the Rhode Island line for the term of one year that I served in said Company and Regiment against the common Enemy - That I was in the Battle on Harlem Heights on York Island - the sixteenth day of September the same year and then was wounded by a musket ball in my body which ball is still in my body and extremely troublesome to me, I was then con- veyed to the Hospital in Hackney and was unable to do any further duty until my time was out
Near the close of the year I received a permit from Major Angel and General Nickson - which was in these words - Samuel Gillechrest being ren- dered unfit for duty by reason of a ball lodged in his body - has liberty to go home.

I further testify and say that I have but 10 per cent and that I never have claimed nor received any pension from Government and that I hereby relinquish all claims to any prior to this time. I further testify & declare that by reason of my reduced cir- cumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I therefore claim to be placed as a private on the pension list of the United States in pursuance of an act of congress passed March the eighteenth A D one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - Entitled "An Act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the land and naval service in the United States in the Revolutionary War" and further that I am sixty four years old -
Samuel Gilchrist

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. ADT
May 28, 1929.
Mrs. Florence Shuman, Waldoboro, Maine.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35344, it appears that Samuel Gillohrest or Gilchrist enlisted March 6, 1776, place not stated, served as a private in Captain Talbot's Company, Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island Regiment, was in the battle of Harlem Heights where he received a gunshot wound of the left side; length of service one year.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818 while a resident of St. George, Lincoln County, Massachusetts (Maine), aged sixty-four years.
He died May 4, 1834. (A.B.)
In 1820 he referred to his wife, Hannah, aged sixty-four years. There are no further family data.
This is the history of the only Samuel Gilchrist found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Due to the very large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the

purpose, the bureau is unable to make immediate reply to each request pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution and War of 1812. Letters are being answered as rapidly as possible in the order of receipt.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.

35 344
Rev INVALID.
File No. 85-844
Samuel Gilchrist
Rev Pres
Act: 15 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1909 Dec. 17. Hist. to Mrs. Richard Rigby 1910 Jan. 17 " " Mrs. Alina Burdett 1911 Mch. 15 " " Cyril H. Burdett 1915 Jan. 25 " " C. L. Ferris M. D. 1929 May 28. Hist. to Mrs. Florence Shumway 1930 Apr. 22. Photo mailed to Edw. K. Gould, see Ezekiel Wager W. 23 248.9.10.4.

What little property this person's exhibit in the schedule has been lost from him.
He is very poor.
Reinstated -
Wm. M. L. Hill & Rep

I Richard Young of Cushing in the County of Lincoln and State of  Massachusetts , being of lawful age do testify and swear, that in the year 1776, on the retreat of the American Troops from New York Island, and at the heights of Harlem, an action commenced, in which I was engaged, between the British & American troops; in which action Samuel Gillechrist, a private Soldier, belonging to Colonel Hitchcocks Regiment, and Capt. Salbott's Company, was dangerously wounded by a Ball which lodged in his Belly, and could not be safely extracted, - that I assisted in carrying him from the field to have his wounds examined and dressed, being a Soldier in the same Company with him - and that said Gillechrist has even since laboured under the disability occasioned by said wound -
Richard Young
Lincoln 18 th December A.D. 1820
personally appeared before me the above named Richard Young and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed - I also say that I believe the said Richard Young to be a man of truth and veracity
Hon. Prince Judson

Thomaston Decem 7 th 1830
We the undersigned practising physicians & surgeons in the Town of Thomaston County of Lincoln. do certify that we have carefully examined the case of Samuel Gilchrist Town of St George County of Lincoln. who received a wound from a musket ball in the left side: and which still remains in his body near the hip bone; and must in our opinion be productive of considerable inconvenience and in some measure incapacitate him from following his occupation as a labourer —
Lincoln 15 Dec 15-1830 David Kellogg I hereby certify that the above named David Kellogg & Jacob K French are gentlemen of truth & veracity H Prince Just Peace

Case to be reconsidered
Re Aug 19. 1820
Maine
Samuel G. Gookins
Washington
Secretary of War
Dear Sir
Yours

Roll of Maine - as they consider him to be a most remarkable subject for the charity of his country -
Respectfully -
E. Thatcher -
P.S. This case was originally taken by me & reference to his original declarations will show the facts of his wound above alluded to.
D —
E. Thatcher —
The Honble Secretary of War -

Thomas Dec 15 th
Mark L. Hill Esquire Member of Congress from the 3 d Eastern District (Maine) Washington
Free Sam P. Gilchrist Keep for undivided share See letter to Mr. Hill Price, 26 dec. 1852

Thomaston December 13 th 1820
Dear Sir,
inclosed is a petition and other papers for Samuel Gillehrest - it was contemplated several years ago to petition Government for a pension for Mr Gillehrest he being infirm and needy - but a petition was drawn and signed by a number of respectable characters of this vicinity for that purpose - but when the law of 10 th March 1818 - was in contemplation it was thought best for him to avail himself of that law - which he did - and by the law of May 1820 he has been rejected - tho' his property amounts to about 100 Dollars and has a sick wife who for a number of years past has been unable to dress herself or do any thing - being afflicted with the Rheumatism - as Mr Gillehrest is needy and certainly deserves a pension much more than many that receive one, I must request you, - to assist him - I should think it would be best first to carry these papers to Mr Edwards, - of the Pension department and see if he will not admit him as a Revolutionary pensioner - he can refer to his papers his pension certificate was No (13.290) if he refuses to admit him I should think it would be best to present the petition and papers to Congress - having full confidence in your judgment to manage the business as you may think best (if a petition from all the principal men in this quarter in favour of Mr Gillehrest receiving a pension would be of any use - it could easily be obtained) I am dear Sir Your friend Mark L. Hill Esq (Sumner) Hezekiah Prince

As if you should call at the Pension Office would you have the goodness to see if Nathan Hancock's Pension has been passed upon - he was in Genl for Debt when he made the disclosure to the Judges his property was perhaps less than 200 $ His Certificate is No (11,404) if it has not been passed - I should be glad to have it done - and the notice sent to me - Yours -
W. H. Brown
4 June 1879
Nathan Hancock
Cont. of notification sent to Thos. M'Crack, Esq.
Miscapet, Ill.
25 Oct. 1820
see letter to Hon. Mr. Hill
26 Dec. 1820

The Judge's certificate as to the eligibility of the witnesses as sworn in this case
enlist
Samuel Church Private Registered Mar '68 April 1868
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

Samuel Pinchard Private Col Peterboro Mar 10 April 1868
J. B. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
Mr. Judge with all parts of the city of the north part of the east
Canal

Samuel Gilchrest (Private) 46 — 147 Hitchcock R Island Regt.
Admitted
3 Apr 2 nd 1862.

Ques. 1 v
I Richard Young of Cushing in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts late a Soldier in the War of the American Revolution testify and say that I am well acquainted with Samuel Gilchrist late a Soldier in said War last year of St George in the County & State aforesaid - & that said Gilchrist served with me in said War as faithfully & faithfully in the same Company & Regiment viz in Capt Walbots company & Colonel Hitehocks Regiment - of the Rhode Island Troops - against the common enemy - That said Gilchrist enlisted for the term of one Year & that his enlistment was about the first of March A D 1775 and that he continued to serve untill badly wounded in the battle of Harlem Heights on York Island - where he received a ball from a musket in his left side which disabled him from any further duty & put his life in great hazard & which ball now remains in his side & has never been extracted - & that in consequence of said wound said Gilchrist was permitted to return home that the said wound was received on the sixteenth day of September of said Year 1775 -  Richard Young
End of the City of Washington's certificate on lack of this
District of Maine - State of Massachusetts County of Lincolnss - At Thomaston this 22 nd day of May A D 1810 personally appeared Richard Young whose name is subscribed to the above deposition & made solemn oath that the same is in the whole & in every part of it true before me Elbert Hoteles one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern District in the State of Massachusetts

Lincoln ss. Clerk's Office June 19. 1818
Civil
I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Judicial Court for said County of Lincoln certify that Eben Thatcher on the 22 nd day of May 1818 was one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the said Eastern Circuit composed of the Counties of Lincoln Ken- nebec & Somerset & that the within is his signature
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Courts -
Nathl. Coffin
Town of Thomaston - District of Maine April 17 th 1819 -
County of Lincoln ss - I Certify hereby that Richard Young who has made & subscribed the within Deposition is a man well known by me & is a credible witness
Eben Thatcher
a Justice of the C.C.P. for said eastern Circuit state of Massachusetts

exhibit
State of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln ss.
On the 10 th day of April A.D. 1818
Samuel Gilchrist who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the state of Massachusetts - and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts declared in his said affidavit and at the same time exhibited satisfactory evidence that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life together with his bodily infirmity in consequence of a ball which he received in his body in the revolution & which still remains there & has never been extracted - that he is in need of assistance from his Country for support -
Ebenezer Hatcher
Lincoln ss.
Clerks Office
June 19. 1818
I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Judicial courts for said County of Lincoln certify that Eben Hatcher was on the 10 th day of April 1818 is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the said Eastern Circuit composed of the Counties of Lincoln Kennebec & Somerset & that the foregoing is his signature -
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said courts Nathl. Coffin

I John Madden of lawfull age do testify and say that I was in the Service of the United States in the year AD 1776 and was in Col Hodgecocks Regiment in Col Salbears Company in the Rhode Island line and was well acquainted with Samuel Gilchrist a private in D Company of Regiment and was knowing to his being wounded in his side in an action at Harlem heights, which on the sixteenth day of September in the year 1776 and in consequence of the wound was discharged from the Service - I further say I have been acquainted with D Gilchrist ever since and know  Believe that the ball he then rec d still remains in his body - which subjects him to pain and debility D Gilchrist now lives in St George and is in need of assistance - further say not
John Madden
State of Maine
Hancock Is
Belfast November 20 1820
Then personally appeared the above named John Madden and made solemn Oath that the above instrument by him subscribed did contain the truth and nothing but the truth before me
Samuel Gordon Justice

To the honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled,
Your Petitioner humbly represents, that in the revolutionary war he was an enlisted soldier in the American army , that he was attached to the Capt. Galt's Company, & Colonel Hitchcock's Regiment, and faithfully served his country until he was dangerously wounded at the battle of Harlem heights. In that memorable conflict he received a musket-ball in his body which lodged near his hip bone where it still remains. He has suffered great inconvenience from the wound and is, in consequence of it disen- abled in a great degree from pursuing his occupation as a labourer. Your Petitioner further states, that he was put upon the pension list under the Act of Congress of 1818, and has had his name stricken from the list by virtue of a subsequent Act on account of the amount of his property which altogether is valued at one hundred dollars as may be seen by a reference to the schedule thereof. Your Petitioner further states that the little labour he is able to perform, furnishes quite too scanty a support for himself and family as he has a wife who, for some years past has been, & is likely long to remain in an entirely helpless state, subjecting your Petitioner to much expense for nursing, medical aid &c.
Your Petitioner therefore prays your honorable Body to pass an act for his relief, granting him a pension that he may not be a pauper and a slave in a land of wealth and of liberty - And as in duty bound will ever pray
Samuel Gillchrest

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Geo M. Moore
Claim No. Dec 9, 1909.
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Samuel Gilchrist.
Service _____ Rev
Additional Service. _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No O.M. I.M. or R. as above except I.F. 35344

C. E. Ferris Physician and Surgeon
PHONES 61 AND 56
Jan 20 th
CARTHAGE, ILLINOIS
1915
Pension
Pension Department Washington, D.C.
I am desirous of learning whether or not Samuel Gilchrist or Gilchrist ever received a pension. He lived at Lunenburg Mass. and served in the Revolutionary War. Any information you may be able to furnish me will be greatly appreciated. If he did receive a pension to whom did it go after his death. Respectfully C. Ferris.

124 First St. Lowell, Mass. Dec. 3, 1909.
Department of the Interior Washington P. C.
Dear Sir:—
Please kindly look up the name of Samuel Gilchrist on the Revolutionary Rolls. His home was in St. George, Maine.
Yours truly Mrs. Richard Rigby.

Wakefield Dec 9, 1910
To Ch. Div JAN 11 1910 COMMISSIONER
Dear Sir:-
Please look up the War Records of Samuel Gilchrist and Michael Long, of St. George, Maine, both soldiers of the Revolution.
Kindly forward to
Mrs. Albina Burdett 42 Emerson St. Wakefield Mass.

EDGAR J. LEVEY, PRESIDENT JOHN D. CRIMMINS, } VICE-PRESIDENTS. CLINTON R. JAMES, }
CYRIL H. BURDETT, GENERAL MANAGER. FRANK L. COOKE, SECRETARY. ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, COUNSEL.
CHAUNCEY H. HUMPHREYS, ASST. GENERAL MANAGER. & ASSISTANT SECRETARY. EDWIN A. BAYLES, ASSISTANT SECRETARY. GERHARD KUEHNE, ASSISTANT TREASURER.
THE TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK.
Capital and Surplus $3,000,000.
Branch Offices: 372 Fulton Street, Jamaica. Title Insurance Building, Buffalo. Realty Building, White Plains. Richmond, Staten Island.
135 Broadway, Manhattan. 203 Montague St., Brooklyn.
New York, March 9, 1911
Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly send me a transcript of the record of Samuel Gilchrist, of St. George, Maine, who fought in the Revolutionary War and was injured in the Battle of Harlem Heights, New York, and I believe drew a pension for this cause.
Yours very truly,
Cyril H Burdett

Waltham, Maine
May 24, 1929
United States Pension Dept. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir; -
Will you please inform me when Samuel Gilchrist , a veteran of the Revolutionary War, entered the war and when he was discharged.
I have written your Dept. before for this information but have received no reply.
Awaiting your reply, I am
Yours truly,
Mrs Florence Sherman per. ames.

HERMAN E. DUNNACK STATE LIBRARIAN THERESA C. STUART ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
MAINE STATE LIBRARY AUGUSTA
May 6, 1929.
Mrs. Florence Shuman, Waldoboro, Maine,
My dear Mrs. Shuman:-
Samuel Gilchrest served as a private in the Rhode Island line, and received a pension for his military service. If you will write to the United States Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C., you can obtain a record of his service in the Revolution.
Yours very truly,
Jennie M. Cochrane.
United States Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs; -
Will you please give me the above information.
Thanking you, I am
Yours truly,
Mrs. Florence Shuman

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reply to your request of _____, received for statement of the military history of Samuel Gilchrist a of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired ion as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- file in this Bureau. S. File 35,344
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mch 6. 1776 1 year Pri. Talbot Hitchcock 11 th Cont ts Infantry.                                                   
Battles engaged in, Harlem Heights where he rec'd gov. of left side.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Apl. 8. 1818 - His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, St. George, Lincoln Co. Mass. (Me)
Age at date of application, sixty-four years.
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife Hannah ab 64 yrs. He died May 4. 1834 (Agency book) No further fam. data.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Gillegan, Thomas GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4253 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Jan. 11, 1797 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.